Hi,
I was one of the fortunatre ones to be caught up in the floods of 2005. I have submitted a whole lot of photos for publication on the forum - hopefully they get published. Otherwise send me a pm and I'll email them to you.

The Nossob And Auob rivers on average flow once a century,the road along the Nossob has become a stream, but how much rain is required for the river itself to flow? Would the current rains be enough if they were to continue??

Having just returned from the Kgalagadi, all I can say is "Get up there". The park is an absolutely incredible sight at the moment and the sightings are pretty good too. I saw cheetah every day while I was at Nossob - north between Cubitje and Bedinkt. Lion were also fairly common north of Nossob but the birding was incredible. Huge numbers of raptors (Martial, Tawny, Lanner, Yellow billed Kites among others).I was also fortunate to spend a night at Bitterpan - what an incredible drive - a sea of grass!! (check your radiator for grass seed). This is an amazingly peaceful camp - highly recommended. Giraffe sightings on the Mata side of the park are plentiful. It was also great to see large herds of plains game (springbok, wildebeest, gemsbok) given the relative scarcity of large herds on my previous trips.I'll sort out some more photos and publish them. (also try www.outdoorphoto.co.za and view my album - "mveysey")

Yes there is a swimming pool So now the Afternoon nap will have screaming kids to contend with in the backgroundIn a water short area like the Kalahari I am sure the money could have been spent on a 100 other things

At the risk of getting my own "Difference of ......" thread I would just like to throw in a quick comment about noise at Nossob.
The levels went up significantly it seems when they started opening up 4x4 trails and camps etc... Somehow when you go there on your own or with your SO you are very aware of your own noise as you sit queitly sipping Amurula, but when you are travelling in a group of 8 or more adults, the whole attitude changes and suddenly there is a big circle around a small fire with people talking loudly so that everyone in the group can hear. It's somehow harder to be considerate when in a large group. When I'm with a gathering I always try to bear that in mind.

Nossob is still my favourite camp though and if you absolutely HAVE to be there in school holidays then try to give the kids a break. Far better they are there than hanging out at the Mall.

I once took the family to Kgalagadi, including 3 young kids and a bucketfull of Lego to keep the older 2 amused. Little did I know the youngest boy ( 3 ) decided in his wisdom, to throw a piece of lego out of the window every now and then, like some kind of Hansel And Gretal trail. A car with a young couple noticed a piece on the road and picked it up then saw another and another. For 2 days when sightings were quiet they would look for Lego until they had built there own fairly substantial castle. Eventually they found us and gave it to us and we all had a good laugh.